Posted on 07/03/2017 5:10:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will have their first face-to-face meeting this week on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. But experts say any big changes in US-Russia relations are unlikely to come from the encounter.
"I don't think a lot can come from this meeting, because obviously these two guys don't really know each other," said Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution.
U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster didn't elaborate on what the two leaders would be discussing.
"It's really going to be whatever the president wants to talk about," he told reporters during a briefing Thursday.
CNN reported Monday that the two would likely discuss the war on terror, disputes in Syria and Ukraine and other unilateral agreements, but any talk about Russia's meddling in the U.S.' elections was likely off the table.
Trump repeatedly suggested on the campaign trail that it would be nice to have friendly relations with Russia, but experts say it would be a big mistake for Trump not to take a hard stance during his conversation with Putin.
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Experts say this, experts say that.
It might be that Trump and Putin will manage to harmonize well enough to bring about improvements in the international situation. This Wrestlemania move might be the thing that would say to Putin that in Trump here is more than a fellow in a suit, here is a fellow who understands power rightly used.
They need to have a discussion of Islam Control strategery and tactics.
This seems to make sense. There’s power, and then there’s mad dogs.
AARRRRGGHHH LET'S OVERTURN SOME CARS AND DESTROY PROPERTY! ANTIFA!
Sadly, you’re probably calling it correctly. :(
You may be being extreme here...
In the next 4-8 years, my FONDEST wish is that our Allies again TRUST us and that our Enemies FEAR us!
I think we’re heading in the right direction...for once in a LONG time!
We don’t need a ‘love fest’.
These are two serious men from powerful countries hammering things out. Businesslike; dispassionately.
Something the left just cannot fathom.
Russia with all its islamic terrorist problems is a natural ally for us in destroying the Islamic threat.
there ARE some outstanding issues between our two countries, to be sure.
I just hope that DJT will have Drained the Snake Dept swamp and any other advisors or political hacks or lobbyists that have been trying to get USA to provoke a war against Russia.
The trouble-makers are found in both political parties, alas.
DJT is a smart guy (so is Putin) and maybe the two of them can at least work cooperatively to destroy...hopefully all of....the Islamic terrorist murder gangs that threaten us all (and eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat of course)
Quite the contrast after eight years of Obama performing fellatio on our enemies.
Looks like the enemedia is starting the “Trump will fail with his Putin meeting” meme early.
Wouldn’t it be great if Trump has some kind of gigantic “surprise” success, even though the enemedia will promote such success as “proof of Russian Conspiracy”?
I was thinking that they would probably spend the first ten minutes laughing their asses off before anything else.
Oh...never mind.
He's got his work cut out for him then.
I didn’t know he was a smoker.
I think these two guys will have mutual respect and may just start to come to terms.
I thought Trump and Putin were BFF...according to the left...
But they never meet?
Trump will get along better than anyone expects.
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